Re: ptx --copyright

[Paul Eggert]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Is it time to retire 'ptx --copyright' in favor of the standard
> --version/--help used by all the other coreutils?  If so, I can prepare a
> patch that removes this redundant option, and touches up NEWS and
> coreutils.texi accordingly.

How about if we alias it to --version, and deprecate it?  That would
avoid breaking anything depending on "ptx -C".  (Admittedly unlikely,
but it's nicer to give users some warnings about changes like this.)